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Content: Manuscript, on paper. Magical charms and incantations for a range of purposes, especially pregnancy. Includes several diagrams, among them a humanoid form, titled "Kameʻa le-marʼin". Some of the instructions in Yiddish. Bound out of order. Paper watermarked 1829. On first page,statement of ownership by Mordechai M. M. Epstein, and thenames of his four children. Binding embossed: Property of Dr. Elia C. Epstein, May 1939, Los Angeles, Calif.